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After Socialist Minister of Trade Oscar Schnake Vergara returned from a six-month visit to Washington last December, Chile's Socialist Party became noticeably cool toward its Communist colleagues in the Popular Front. Minister Schnake had wangled a $17,000,000 Export-Import Bank loan for Chile, and in return was supposed to see that the U. S. got full cooperation in its plans for hemisphere defense. Last January Socialist Leader Marmaduke Grove announced that if the U. S. entered the war, Chile would follow...
...fable conceived by whites for an all-Negro cast. In it the robustly endearing Ethel Waters returns to Broadway. As the wife of an errant colored gentleman who has spent more than spare time with a lovely hussy, she prays for him, on his deathbed, gains for him a six-month reprieve from death while the forces of good & evil wrestle, in plain view of the audience, for his soul. Ethel is on the Lawd's side. On Lucifer's is the hussy. The husband, as Actor Dooley Wilson irresistibly suggests, is somewhere in between. Lucifer is further...
Fellowship System. Every six months Memorial takes on nine young physicians for a six-month trial, selects one or two for three-year fellowships. After working in eight clinical services, assisting in at least 300 different operations, taking special courses in Xray, radium, pathology, they go to the far corners of the earth to crusade against mankind's No. 2 killer...
...official mission was Sir George's visit. He arrived via Canada last July, planned to begin a six-month lecture tour in November. He did not register as an agent of a foreign power. Three weeks ago he was a guest at the White House. Sir George last week did not deny that he had spoken the words Burt Wheeler repeated in the Senate. But he thought that the Senator had misunderstood his intentions...
...companies whose profits were not up, most had been tripped by special situations. Because higher wheat prices add to flour company costs (not to hedged inventory values) Pillsbury Flour Co. net for fiscal year ending May 31 dropped 56% to $990,914. 20th Century-Fox Film Corp.'s six-month net fell from $2,325,526 to a thin $117,213 (because of heavy foreign losses, an $800.000 reserve set up against them and a string of unlucky pictures...